{"id":101149,"date":"2021-04-06T12:21:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101149"},"modified":"2021-04-06T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T22:34:21","slug":"r-s-thomas-the-answer-for-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101149","title":{"rendered":"R S Thomas “The Answer” for Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

From there<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Not darkness but twilight
\nIn which even the best
\nof minds must make its way
\nnow. And slowly the questions
\noccur, vague but formidable
\nfor all that. We pass our hands
\nover their surface like blind
\nmen feeling for the mechanism
\nthat will swing them aside. They
\nyield, but only to re-form
\nas new problems; and one
\ndoes not even do that
\nbut towers immovable
\nbefore us. <\/p>\n

Is there no way
\nof other thought of answering
\nits challenge? There is an anticipation
\nof it to the point of
\ndying. There have been times
\nwhen, after long on my knees
\nin a cold chancel, a stone has rolled
\nfrom my mind, and I have looked
\nin and seen the old questions lie
\nfolded and in a place
\nby themselves, like the piled
\ngraveclothes of love\u2019s risen body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A #Lutheran<\/a> masterpiece "of the #Resurrection<\/a> by Lucas #Cranach<\/a> the Younger (the son of #Luther<\/a>\u2019s friend). It\u2019s filled with light, which has, indeed, overcome the darkness. May all of you have a glorious #Easter<\/a>!…#Christ<\/a> Is Risen!"~> https:\/\/t.co\/1NcVKkPnaj<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/j48var6Rjg<\/a><\/p>\n

— Quinte Lutheran (@QuinteLutheran) April 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n